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Movie Saga1995 – 2002
Friday Collection
4 Films
6.7 Avg Rating
$121.6M Saga Box Office
3.52x Commercial Multiplier
Friday is a 1995 stoner buddy comedy film directed by F. Gary Gray, making it his directorial debut for a hit movie. Starring Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long, Bernie Mac, Tommy Lister, Jr., and John Witherspoon, the film revolves around 16 hours in the lives of unemployed slackers Craig Jones and Smokey, who must pay a drug dealer $200 by 10:00 PM that night. The film spawned two sequels: Next Friday and Friday After Next, and a proposed fourth film, Last Friday.
Franchise Box Office Economics
Combined theatrical financials and commercial performance across all 4 installments.
Total Worldwide Gross
$121.6M
Cumulative box office receipts
Total Production Budget
$34.5M
Combined studio investments
Average Gross / Film
$30.4M
Average theatrical return
Commercial Multiple
3.52x
Worldwide Gross vs Budget
Films in Saga(4)
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7.2(2123)1h 31m• Comedy, Drama
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
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6.5(684)1h 38m• Comedy
A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison. But trouble soon follows and the suburbs will never be the same.
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6.4(483)1h 25m• Comedy, Drama
Craig and his cousin Day-Day have finally moved out of their parents' houses and into their own crib, working nights at a local mall as security guards. When their house is robbed on Christmas Eve they set out to track down the culprit.